The Hartford Courant, the longest-running newspaper in the United States, turned 250 years old yesterday, which means yes, it’s older than United States itself. That also means the newspaper has seen an awful lot of headlines grace its pages over the years, as it covered some of the seminal moments of the country. For their celebration of 250, the Hartford Courant reached deep back into the archives for some of the biggest headlines in tech that helped shape the country and the world. The Courant’s trip down memory lane doesn’t go back too far, though—they kick things off with the opening of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, in a time that predated large headlines. The opening of the railroad isn’t even the first news story featured, and you have to do some scanning to spot it, so I guess sweeping, revolutionary projects were no big deal back then. The collection is full of events from the 1900s, including Amelia Earhart’s successful flight over the Pacific Ocean, something that is back in the news now that some researchers believe that a piece of metal retrieved in 1991 from Nikumaroro, an island in the Western Pacific, is actually a piece of the ...